Posted by paramount99 on
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Odd but this reminds me a tad or how the BBC might react when I was building (very good if I can be allowed to say) full sized Daleks up until around 8-10-years ago and, aside from selling them on to help fund me and my wife in full time caring of her mother for ten years (I was her full time carer - and the creative distraction was really helpful) the BBC and their policing of the Dalek franchise would have shut this hobby or pursuit down in a flash, if they caught on to it - unless of course they were receiving a hefty chunk of the profits I might possibly make from selling the props which had only occurred through my months a months (which was years and years eventually) or hard and loving devotion to creating the bad boy creatures.
I also would allow local museums and such to show the Dalek/s in any Dr Who exhibitions, where other loyal fans had constructed other props from the show, and all for free (I used to ask that they might like to donate a small amount to The Wishing Well Appeal charity) and some of these museum's used to have run-ins with the BBC (money grabbing) police on occasion, suggesting the showing hadn't been sanctioned by them (they always want money) even though much profits and proceeds would go to various charities. The BBC wanted their ''chunk'' of the action over proceeds going to charity. Not too dissimilar to now, where up to £14-million might be taken aside from TV charities, way before any goes to the charities that people desire to kindly donate to.
The Beeb used to stop us selling our Daleks on eBay and such - unless they sanctioned the sale.
We used to remind them that fan builds are part of the reason the show remained in the psyche of peoples minds... Quite a few BBC execs have Daleks (some fan builds) as pure investment value, we might be led to imagine.